- Museum number
- 1866,1229.22
- Description
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Furniture ornament; silver with gilding; hollowed, one-piece casting; rectangular socket: square in section; framed with rectilinear moulding; traces of soldering plate; two aligned holes for missing pin; terminating in a female figure representing the Tyche of Antioch seated on a stylised rock outcropping; plastically rendered; detailed with decorative engraving, stippling and gilded drapery; figure wears tunic, mantle, boots and mural crown and holds fruit and sheaves of grain; below the figure: a nude youth, a personification of the river Orontes and a hinged, pierced, stippled and punched leaf with rounded knob finial. One of a set with 1866,1229.21, 23 and 24.
- Production date
- 330-370 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres
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Weight: 732.50 grammes
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Width: 70 millimetres
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Depth: 93 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For metallurgical analysis see: M.J. Hughes and J.A. Hall, "X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Late Roman and Sassanian Silver", Journal of Archaeological Science 6 (1979) p.327.
In set with 1866,1229.21 and 1866,1229.22-24.
- Location
- On display (G41/dc7)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015, Oct 29 – 2016, Feb 7. British Museum, Room 35. Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs
2012-2013 11 Nov-25 Aug, USA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tradition Transformed: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
2009 11 Dec-2010 10 May, Spain, Madrid, Canal de Isabel II, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2009 1 May-20 Sep, Canada, Victoria, Royal BC Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2007 14 Sep-2 Dec, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2007 3 Feb-27 May, Taipei, National Palace Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2006 18 Mar-4 Jun, Beijing, Capital Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2005 11 Apr-10 Jul, Seoul Arts Centre, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2001 6 Sep-30 Dec, USA, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Antioch – The Lost Roman City
2001 18 Mar-3 Jun, USA, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Antioch – The Lost Roman City
2000 7 Oct-2001 4 Feb, USA, Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Antioch – The Lost Roman City
1990 24 Jan-22 Apr, Italy, Milan, Royal Palace of Milan, Milano Capitale dell’ Impero
1984 4 May-10 Nov, Germany, Trier, Rheinshces Landesmuseum, Constantin und Trier
1983-1984 15 Dec-11 Mar, Germany, Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Late Antiquity and Early Christianity
1977-1978 18 Nov-12 Feb, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Early Christian Art
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1866,1229.22
